Emmy-award winning TV journalist. Played a major role in establishing the long-running PBS news show, "Washington Week in Review". Davenport moderated the influential program in 1966 and 1967. He first made a name for himself in the 1960s at WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. Davenport also worked for KABC-TV (ABC 7) in Los Angeles, California, where he covered the sensational murder trials of Charles Manson and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assasin, Sirhan Sirhan. He returned to his native Houston, Texas in 1970 and served as news director for both TV and radio news shows. In addition, Davenport utilized his expertise as media relations director for the University of Texas Health Science Center and University of Houston. He also returned to public television where he worked for KTRK-TV (ABC 13) Houston as a reporter and commentator during the 1970s and later moved to KRIV-TV (Fox 26) Houston, where he worked as an anchor including writing and appearing in "J.D.'s Journal", a news program of Texas public interest stories.
Emmy-award winning TV journalist. Played a major role in establishing the long-running PBS news show, "Washington Week in Review". Davenport moderated the influential program in 1966 and 1967. He first made a name for himself in the 1960s at WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. Davenport also worked for KABC-TV (ABC 7) in Los Angeles, California, where he covered the sensational murder trials of Charles Manson and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assasin, Sirhan Sirhan. He returned to his native Houston, Texas in 1970 and served as news director for both TV and radio news shows. In addition, Davenport utilized his expertise as media relations director for the University of Texas Health Science Center and University of Houston. He also returned to public television where he worked for KTRK-TV (ABC 13) Houston as a reporter and commentator during the 1970s and later moved to KRIV-TV (Fox 26) Houston, where he worked as an anchor including writing and appearing in "J.D.'s Journal", a news program of Texas public interest stories.
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